Based Trading Cards

https://www.basedtradingcards.com/

The World’s First Physical Bitcoin-Only Collectible Trading Card company.

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2026-08-01 19:41:28 CEST

August 1, 2011.
Silk Road launched, and Bitcoin became harder to describe in polite company.
That is part of the history too.
Free Ross
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2026-07-16 21:09:27 CEST

The NOSTR card feels better on Nostr.
Too obvious, still true.
NOSTR #55
Warriors vs. Villains
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2026-07-09 19:18:28 CEST

Second halving day.
Not a holiday exactly. More like a reminder that Bitcoin keeps its own calendar.
The Halving
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2026-07-02 18:37:27 CEST

This one does not need much explaining.
Bitcoin 1 #1
The Simulation
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2026-06-25 13:29:38 CEST

The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York on June 17, 1885.
Liberty is easy to turn into a poster.
Harder to keep alive in the pipes.
Speech, money, movement, custody. Different fronts, same pressure.
Freedom of Speech #32
Warriors vs. Villains, Gold, supply 421
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2026-06-25 13:29:37 CEST

June 24, 2011.
Bitcoin difficulty passed 1,000,000 at block 133056.
That is a clean little timestamp for the case: the network getting harder to fake, harder to attack, harder to ignore.
Proof of Work #122
Warriors vs. Villains, supply 500
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2026-06-25 13:29:36 CEST

June 20, 2011.
The EFF stopped accepting Bitcoin donations because the legal picture was too unclear.
That was early Bitcoin in one sentence: powerful enough to matter, strange enough to scare the lawyers.
Freedom of Speech #32
Warriors vs. Villains, Gold, supply 421
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2026-06-25 13:29:35 CEST

June 19, 2011.
MtGox leaked user data, an admin account got abused, and the exchange price was shoved from $17.51 to one cent before trades were reversed.
Early Bitcoin did not get stronger because everything worked.
It got stronger because the failures were expensive, public, and impossible to forget.
Mount Gox #17
Halving Edition Whale Pack
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2026-06-25 13:29:34 CEST

June 14, 2011.
WikiLeaks started accepting Bitcoin donations after the payment rails tried to choke them out.
That is the part people forget. Bitcoin was a way around permission before it was a Wall Street ticker.
Cypherpunks #9
FUD Busters, supply 2054
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2026-06-25 13:29:34 CEST

June 13, 2011.
A forum user claimed 25,000 BTC had been stolen from his wallet.
That number sounds unreal now. It was painful then too.
Self-custody is freedom, but it is not magic. You have to hold the keys like they matter.
Hardware Wallet #57
Orange Pill in a Pack, supply 1990
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2026-06-08 19:36:27 CEST

1984 was published on June 8, 1949.
The creepy part is how little of it feels old.
Screens everywhere. Language getting sanded down. Truth treated like something editable.
Bitcoin does not fix all of that.
But it does keep one ledger that does not care who is speaking.
1984 #51
The Simulation, supply 1000
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2026-06-06 21:43:13 CEST

June 6, 1934: the SEC is born.
Fair enough. Markets need rules.
But Bitcoin asked a different question: what if settlement did not need a referee in the middle of every move?
Bitcoin Exchange #58
Orange Pill in a Pack, supply 1990
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2026-06-05 19:19:34 CEST

June 5, 1933.
The US moved off the gold standard and picked managed money.
Bitcoin people argue about a lot of things. This one is pretty simple: if money can be rewritten by committee, someone is standing closest to the pen.
Sound Money #65
Warriors vs. Villains, supply 21
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2026-05-31 18:38:11 CEST

May 2017 was a weird month to watch Bitcoin.
It closed the month at $2,286.41. Up 69.6% in May alone.
The old money people kept calling it a bubble.
The chart kept making them say it louder.
The Cantillon Effect #59
The Simulation, Orange, supply 210
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2026-05-22 17:05:47 CEST

Pizza Day is not just a meme.
It is the first receipt.
Bitcoin Pizza #10
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2026-05-17 16:35:03 CEST

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Most of the BTC Cards chatter still happens on Telegram, but we’re on a few other corners too.
Whatnot’s here if you want to follow along there:
https://whatnot.com/s/ewwZMTDa
Discord and Reddit exist too — Telegram’s just where the room is loudest right now.

2026-05-16 18:05:11 CEST

Digital moves fast.
Physical becomes evidence.
That is why the card matters.

2026-05-11 21:06:01 CEST

The 2020 halving belongs in the case because it did the collector thing:
it froze a moment that changed on schedule.
Blockchain #12
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2026-05-11 17:05:23 CEST

In 2011, five dollars was not just a price.
It was a proof mark.
Early enough to feel impossible.
Late enough to be real.

2026-05-05 17:06:00 CEST

The architects lie has rare-pack energy.
You either see the system, or you see the wallpaper.
The Simulation #36, supply 210
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2026-05-01 17:10:49 CEST

Quantitative Easing looks calm on paper.
On the card, it feels like the machine showing its face.
The Simulation #56, supply 1000
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2026-04-23 22:07:26 CEST

April 23, 2005. First YouTube video. 18 seconds. A guy at the zoo.
340 million views later, the platform spends more time deciding what you can watch than showing it to you.
Rumble exists because of that.
Warriors vs. Villains - #63, 210 supply
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2026-04-22 17:55:05 CEST

Privacy stopped being a niche concern a while ago.
If self-custody matters, the device in your pocket matters too.
@GrapheneOS
The Simulation #63, Purple, supply 700
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2026-04-22 17:53:35 CEST

2026-04-16 20:31:37 CEST

Part cyberpunk, part internet-forbidden-fruit, part classic 'there's no going back now' energy.
Orange Pill feels like it was built for people who grew up on glitchy screens, bad systems, and the suspicion that something was off the whole time.
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2026-04-14 20:26:38 CEST

Some cards explain Series 4 in one shot.
Red vs Blue Pill is one of them.
The choice is simple:
comfort or truth,
illusion or awakening.
Very on-brand for The Simulation, and the art carries it without needing a wall of copy.
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2026-04-11 20:45:34 CEST

The Civil Rights Act passed April 11, 1968. The fight was about access -- who gets to participate, who gets shut out. Bitcoin asks the same question. No bank can deny you an account. No government can freeze what you hold. Alejandra Guajardo figured that out early. Miss Universe El Salvador, and one of the clearest voices on why financial freedom matters.
Miss Bitcoin #106 | Supply: 500
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2026-04-10 19:17:40 CEST

Bitcoin lives online.
Some things around it shouldn't.
Binder. desk. slab. box.
It stays.

2026-04-09 21:18:19 CEST

$100 in April 2013. $200 a few weeks later.\n\nMost people looked at that chart and thought they\d
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2026-04-09 05:43:12 CEST

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It is. The interesting part is figuring out which pieces still matter years later. What Bitcoin culture assets have actually stuck with you?

2026-04-06 19:54:37 CEST

Raphael was born April 6, 1483. He worked until the day he died at 37.
His paintings still sell for hundreds of millions. The work speaks for itself.
Proof of Work is the only system that can't be faked. Bitcoin figured that out 500 years later.
Proof of Work — #8, 700 supply
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2026-04-03 00:38:53 CEST

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worth noting — that should read $100, not 00. fingers clearly moved faster than the keyboard. the milestone stands either way.

2026-04-02 20:24:09 CEST

April 2, 2013. Bitcoin crossed 00 for the first time. Most people laughed. A few understood what they were watching. Satoshi built something and walked away — no patents, no royalties, no claims. Just code that worked. There are 21 of these cards. Same number as the million bitcoin supply cap. That's not a coincidence.
Tip of the Hat | Chase Card | Supply: 21
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2026-04-02 06:28:26 CEST

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History you can actually hold. That's the whole thing with physical collectibles — the object carries the story in a way a photo or a file never does. A watch that was on the Titanic is a different kind of artifact than reading about it.

2026-04-01 17:16:28 CEST

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The tactile feel of a physical card is something digital assets just can't replicate. Bitcoin history looks good in a slab.

2026-04-01 17:16:05 CEST

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Alladin and the team really put their heart into those designs. Seeing the community appreciate the art is what it's all about.

2026-03-27 16:31:36 CET

Ross Ulbricht built Silk Road in 2011. He was arrested in 2013, convicted in 2015, and sentenced to life without parole as a first-time offender for non-violent crimes.
On January 21, 2025, Trump granted him a full and unconditional pardon.
He served over 11 years. The Bitcoin community never stopped pushing for his release.
The case raised real questions about sentencing proportionality and what happens when a judge decides to make an example of someone. Whatever you think about Silk Road, those questions didn't go away when he walked out.
Now that he's free, what do you think his most important contribution to the conversation should be?
FUD Busters - #42, 2,054 supply
#Bitcoin #FreeRoss
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2026-03-22 19:42:06 CET

Samson Mow has one job at JAN3: get countries onto Bitcoin before they realize they're out of time.
He's worked with governments on Bitcoin bonds, mining strategy, and financial infrastructure. El Salvador was a start. His view is that nation-state adoption won't be gradual. It'll happen suddenly, all at once, like a dam breaking.
Bitcoin is the right of all sentient beings. That's his quote. Hard to argue with it.
Do you think the next wave of country-level adoption happens in 2026, or are we still a few years out?
Spirit of Satoshi - #CL9, 256 supply
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2026-03-22 03:16:05 CET

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Episode 4 is a good one. Alladin and Asanoha break down what Based Trading Cards actually is - physical, graded, Bitcoin-native. Not another NFT project. If you want to understand why culture matters for Bitcoin adoption, this is worth 45 minutes of your time.

2026-03-21 19:02:25 CET

Bitcoin has no intrinsic value is one of the oldest critiques in the book.
Neither does gold, really. Value is what people agree it's worth. Always has been.
Bitcoin's fixed supply of 21 million can't be changed by any government or central bank. That's not nothing. That's the whole point.
Mises wrote that sound money protects civil liberties by limiting state power. Bitcoin just automated that constraint.
Does the no intrinsic value argument still land to you, or does it feel outdated at this point?
Halving Edition Whale Pack - #25
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2026-03-20 18:40:47 CET

January 10, 2009. Hal Finney posted two words: Running bitcoin.
The next day, Satoshi sent him 10 BTC - the first Bitcoin transaction ever.
Finney was a cryptographer who'd spent years building toward this. He ran the software before almost anyone else. And he documented it in the most understated way possible.
Two words. That's it.
If you had to pick a moment Bitcoin entered the world, that's probably it. What do you think Finney understood that most people missed in 2009?
Warriors vs. Villains - #138, 1 of 1
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2026-03-19 17:50:18 CET

The 4th Bitcoin halving in 2024 dropped the block reward to 3.125 BTC, locking in a supply issuance rate lower than gold. We are now two years into this epoch, watching the scarcity math play out in real time.
As we march toward the 5th halving in 2028, do you think the market has fully priced in the current 3.125 reward structure?
#Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards
Halving Edition Whale Pack — C41, Chase Card, 125 supply
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2026-03-18 16:53:46 CET

John Adams wrote in 1813 that American aristocracy was rising "not from Virtues or Talents so much as from Banks and Land Jobbing." In other letters he called any bank that issues paper at interest "a Pickpocket or a Robber" and said there was no honest money but silver and gold. He wrote that 200 years before the Fed's balance sheet hit $9 trillion. If Adams were alive today, do you think he would hold Bitcoin?
#Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards
Warriors vs. Villains - #12, Silver, 669 supply.
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2026-03-17 18:48:09 CET

Hal Finney tweeted "Running bitcoin" on January 11, 2009, the day before he received the first Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi. Eight months later he was diagnosed with ALS. He kept coding Bitcoin for years after that, eventually using eye-tracking software because his hands no longer worked. He contributed to the protocol until he physically could not. Courage isn't a concept for Bitcoiners. It's a track record. Who else in any industry has a story like that?
#Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards
Warriors vs. Villains — #29, 1000 supply.
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2026-03-17 02:15:14 CET

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2008 was the year Bitcoin launched and the year that team had nothing. The parallel writes itself. That card exists because someone thought that story deserved to be on cardboard.

2026-03-16 17:32:56 CET

A family-run race team in the UK has four Bitcoin-liveried cars on track and the official endorsement of the nation of El Salvador, whose ambassador drove to Oulton Park Circuit to watch their first race. The Mackenzie family started this project because Bitcoin helped them survive 2008. Now they put the El Salvador flag on their HGV hauler and drive it 5,000 miles across the UK every season. How many people do you think google Bitcoin after seeing a lorry like that on the motorway?
#Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards
FUD Busters — #120, Chase Card, 500 supply.
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2026-03-15 21:18:18 CET

There's a village in Malawi that mines Bitcoin using surplus hydroelectric power that would otherwise go to waste. That's the story inside Dirty Coin, Alana Mediavilla's debut documentary that just won Best Movie at the Bitcoin Film Festival in Warsaw. It crosses four continents looking at the gap between what politicians say about Bitcoin mining and what's actually happening on the ground. What's the energy source closest to you that gets wasted every day?
#Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards
B24 Nashville — Chase Card.
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2026-03-15 21:17:43 CET

Theres
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2026-03-14 18:23:55 CET

They called the printing press the tyrant's foe, the people's friend. It dropped dangerous ideas into the hands of everyone. Bitcoin? It does that for money.
What tool of financial liberation have you found hardest to explain to someone who isn't already convinced?
B24 Nashville - The Liberator, Chase Card.
#Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards
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2026-03-13 17:47:39 CET

Nobody knows who Satoshi Nakamoto is. That anonymity was intentional. Bitcoin's creator disappeared so the protocol could never be captured, owned, or stopped.
This card exists exactly once.
If Satoshi ever broke silence, what's the one question you'd want answered?
Orange Pill in a Pack - 24, 1 of 1.
#Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards
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2026-03-12 17:48:07 CET

Getting started in Bitcoin can feel like you're on your own, trying to piece everything together from articles and videos. It's a lot to navigate.
But what if you could just talk to an expert? Coinbeast.com built a feature called CoinBeast Connect for exactly that. It lets you book one-on-one video calls with Bitcoin professionals to get direct answers on topics like self-custody, mining, or taxes. It's a direct line for personalized education.
If you had a 1-on-1 call with a Bitcoiner, what's the first thing you would ask?
Orange Pill in a Pack — 63, 1990 supply
#Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards
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2026-03-11 20:23:30 CET

Bitcoin Audible has been running for 8 years and just crossed 1,300 episodes. That's not a podcast, that's an archive.
What Swann built is something different from a typical interview show. He reads Bitcoin — articles, research papers, books, blog posts — and narrates them. The entire written history of the protocol, distilled into audio. Millions of downloads, and growing. The show has formats for beginners, for deep technical dives, and for conversations. It's one of the most complete single-source Bitcoin education libraries in existence, and one person built it.
Guy Swann is speaking at Plan B Conference this month alongside Adam Fisk and Mathias Buus. Still in the work.
Who first got you to take Bitcoin seriously — was it something you read, or something you heard?
Spirit of Satoshi — CL7, 1 of 1.
#Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards
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2026-03-10 23:41:29 CET

When Satoshi disappeared, the network didn't die. Instead, it proved the whole point: Bitcoin doesn't need a figurehead.
Every time you run a node, hold your own keys, or mine a block, you're participating in the same vision Satoshi started. Not his Bitcoin. Your Bitcoin. The anonymity that protected him is the same anonymity available to anyone who wants to use it. The code doesn't care if you're a CEO or a pleb.
"We are all Satoshi" isn't propaganda. It's what happens when a system is truly decentralized. The creator can vanish and nothing breaks. That's the test of the design.
What would your relationship to money look like if you genuinely believed you were as much a part of it as the person who invented it?
Spirit of Satoshi — CL2, Chase Card, 1000 supply.
#Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards
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2026-03-09 20:02:25 CET

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Passing one in person hits different. There's something about holding it, seeing the print quality up close — it tends to start a conversation on its own.

2026-03-09 20:02:17 CET

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You're right — the cypherpunks built the foundation. Brunell's move is valuable precisely because she stands on their shoulders and reaches people who'd never read a manifesto. Different roles in the same mission.

2026-03-09 16:18:53 CET

Card 3. Natalie Brunell. Base parallel, 424 supply.
When investigative journalists go Bitcoin, something shifts. Brunell spent years chasing stories on major networks, learning how to translate complex systems into human stakes. Now she does the same with monetary policy.
Her book—Bitcoin Is for Everyone—wasn't written for cypherpunks. It was written for her old colleagues in mainstream media, the people still convinced Bitcoin is for criminals. That accessibility matters. The women's Bitcoin brunch she hosts every year at major conferences? Also deliberate. Adoption depends on reaching people told they're too old, too non-technical, or too outside the club.
"If 8 billion people want a form of money that is scarce, decentralized and decoupled from corrupt governments, they will have it."
The interviewer becomes the advocate.
#Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards
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2026-03-08 18:02:20 CET

Some philosophies are theoretical. Others are put into practice daily. Bitcoin maximalism is not just a belief in sound money, but an active participation in the network that secures it. It's the conviction that leads someone to run their own node, verifying every transaction for themselves.
This isn't a small commitment. It requires hardware, bandwidth, and the proof of work to learn. Yet, tens of thousands of nodes are currently online, forming a global, decentralized consensus that has never been successfully compromised. This is the keystone of the whole system, operated by individuals who opted out of the old one.
What was the single biggest factor that convinced you to run your own node?
#Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards
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2026-03-08 16:00:19 CET

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Holding a message you can feel creates a different connection. Physical cards are a tangible part of Bitcoin history that people can't ignore.

2026-03-08 14:53:20 CET

Card #89 — Tip_NZ (Warriors vs. Villains)
Tip_NZ puts Bitcoin philosophy to music. Beats, poetry, visual storytelling — she makes the case without a whitepaper.
"When we divorce action from consequence
We defy the law of physics
When we made scarcity infinite
We disregard the language of mathematics"
Base card. 210 copies.
Physical. Printed. Graded. Not an NFT.
What does this card mean to you? 👇
#Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards #BitcoinCards
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2026-03-07 19:02:27 CET

Most collectors focus on the design of a card, but the concept behind this one is its real power. The state's control of money isn't just an idea; it's enforced through specific laws.\n\nBefore the Legal Tender Act of 1862 in the United States, for example, private bank notes and foreign coins were common currency. The government's decision to issue its own paper money and legally compel its acceptance for all debts was a turning point. It created a monopoly. This single piece of legislation is the foundation of the fiat system we know today, replacing market-based money with state-decreed currency.\n\nIt makes you wonder, what does a collection truly represent when the very definition of money can be changed by law?\n\n#Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards
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2026-03-06 19:01:31 CET

Many know Rare Scrilla for his vibrant, psychedelic style, but his roots in the culture run deeper than most realize. Long before the mainstream NFT boom, he was a key contributor to the Rare Pepe trading card series, one of the earliest experiments in crypto art on the Bitcoin blockchain. He even minted what many consider the first music NFT all the way back in 2016 under his DJ Pepe alias.
This card, XCOCOX, feels like a direct link to that early era of creative, chaotic energy. It captures the spirit of an artist who was there from the beginning, drawing memes for Bitcoin from his swamp. A true OG.
How much of the early pre-2017 crypto art history do you think is lost to time?
Art: Rare Scrilla
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2026-03-05 19:01:41 CET

Kiyosaki published that asset-versus-liability framework in 1997. Over 32 million copies sold. Most people understood it, put the book down, and kept their savings in a checking account.
The standing FUD on Bitcoin is that it is speculation, not an asset. But run the test: over any four-year window since 2012, Bitcoin has gained against the dollar. It does not generate cash flow, which is the usual knock. Neither does gold. Gold has been an asset for five thousand years without writing anyone a dividend check.
What makes something an asset is simple: does it hold or grow your purchasing power? The fiat in your wallet loses 8-10% per year to inflation. The math is not complicated.
What is the asset in your stack that the mainstream still calls a liability?
#Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards
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2026-03-04 20:39:05 CET

October 15th, 2025. TheCoinDad drove over 600 miles to trade his tractor for GingerSherpa's sealed box of Bitcoin trading cards.
Not for money. Not for clout. Because the cards meant something to one person and the tractor meant something to the other, and both agreed that was a fair trade.
Alladan called it Bitcoin Tractor Day. Said it deserved to live in Bitcoin history the same way Bitcoin Pizza Day does.
He wasn't wrong.
Some moments in this community deserve to be remembered.
#Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards
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2026-03-04 19:01:52 CET

A new phishing tool called Starkiller just surfaced. Instead of a fake login page, it spins up a real-time proxy of the actual site — live session, real MFA prompt, every keystroke logged through attacker infrastructure. You authenticate successfully. The attacker walks in behind you with your session token.
This is what the AI-assisted scammer threat looks like in practice. Spotting fakes by checking for pixel-perfect copies is mostly dead. When the proxy is the real page, there is nothing to spot.
For Bitcoin specifically, the defense has not changed: your private keys never touch the internet. Not a browser extension, not a web wallet, not anything that makes an outbound request with your seed. Offline storage cuts the attack surface before Starkiller or anything like it gets close.
Scammers always find the path of least resistance. Right now that path goes straight through your browser session.
What is the most convincing phishing attempt you have personally run into?
Art: Alladin & Genjos
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2026-03-03 19:01:55 CET

"Freedom" is one of the more honest cards in the Genesis set. The back text defines it almost identically to how the Cato Human Freedom Index does: freedom as the absence of coercive constraint.
The 2024 HFI found 87% of the world's population saw their freedoms decline from 2019 to 2022. Not just political freedoms, but measurable ones, sound money included. People in the bottom quartile of freedom average $15,800 per year in income versus $56,000 in the top.
Bitcoin does not care which quartile you were born into. That is exactly what the Genesis set was built for, cards designed to hand to someone who has never considered what sound money has to do with their life.
The quote on the card is worth sitting with: "The secret to happiness is freedom and the secret to freedom is courage." That is not a motivational poster. That is a genuine ask.
What first made financial freedom feel real to you?
#Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards
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2026-03-02 19:01:25 CET

A family race team that found Bitcoin after the 2008 financial crisis, now running two cars in the 2026 MINI Challenge. That's Bitcoin Racing in brief.
The El Salvador angle is what stands out. Getting an entire country to officially endorse a motorsport team is not something you see in this sport. National backing at that level normally goes to well-funded state programs, not a family operation.
The 2023 season pulled 16.2 million TV viewers and 400k live spectators. Bitcoin conferences reach people already in the space. A race weekend reaches people who are there for the cars and only hear about Bitcoin because it's on the livery.
Whether that passive exposure converts anyone is the real question. Do you think motorsport sponsorship actually moves people toward Bitcoin, or is it just brand awareness?
#Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards
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2026-03-01 19:01:34 CET

The Bitcoin Mining card from Warriors vs. Villains captures something most people walk right past: mining is not just how new coins are created, it's why the transaction history can't be rewritten.
Every 10 minutes, somewhere on the planet, an ASIC makes trillions of guesses to find a number small enough to win the block. The difficulty adjusts automatically so that pace holds regardless of how much hashpower joins the network. That self-correcting clock is one of the more elegant things in Bitcoin and it rarely gets mentioned outside technical circles.
What's underappreciated right now: some operations run entirely on gas that oil companies would otherwise burn off as waste. Flared methane gets converted into electricity and plugged straight into mining rigs. It's a genuinely novel use of energy that was already being destroyed.
The /210 supply on this Orange parallel keeps it in collector territory without being impossible to find.
What's the angle that got you interested in how mining actually works?
Art: Alladin & Nico
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2026-02-28 19:01:20 CET

Most people hear Bitcoin and think: get rich. The Card Genie card frames it differently.
In this version of the Aladdin story, three wishes are granted, and none of them are for gold. Aladdin wishes for awakening, critical thinking, and integrity. Things that can't be printed, issued, or debased. The joke about fiat money is almost too obvious once you see it.
A Chase card with supply of 3 from the Bitcoin Magazine series, art by John and Bandit077. The Aladdin metaphor has been floating around Bitcoin circles for years, but I haven't seen it rendered as a physical card before. There's something fitting about it being a Chase card. The rare pulls are usually the ones that make you think.
If you could wish for one thing the current monetary system has made harder to find, what would it be?
Art: John & Bandit077
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2026-02-27 19:01:47 CET

Card 30 in Warriors vs. Villains is just called Hope. Silver parallel, 669 supply.
Mandela said it from prison: 'Hope is a powerful weapon and no power on earth can deprive you of it.' He wasn't talking about Bitcoin. But the overlap is hard to miss.
27 years behind bars and his captors could take everything except what he believed was possible. That's the same instinct that drives Bitcoiners through bear markets, exchange collapses, regulatory crackdowns, and the endless cycle of obituaries. The asset can be seized. The conviction that the math is right cannot.
That's what this card is quietly doing. It's not abstract inspiration, it's a statement about what makes a sound money movement durable. Hope isn't passive here. It's the thing that keeps people building, running nodes, holding keys, doing the work.
What keeps you coming back when the price is down?
Art: Alladin & Diletta
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2026-02-26 19:01:30 CET

The part of SeedSigner that doesn't get enough attention is the stateless design. The device never stores your keys. Every session, you load your seed fresh, sign what you need to sign, and the keys are gone when you power off. There's nothing to extract later because there's nothing there.
That's a fundamentally different security model from most hardware wallets. Most devices are keeping your keys somewhere. SeedSigner refuses to.
And the whole thing runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero with off-the-shelf parts for under $50. You can verify the code yourself, build the enclosure yourself, even generate your seed phrase entropy from dice rolls or a photo. It's FOSS all the way down.
A card that represents actual self-custody philosophy, not just the aesthetics of it. What's your current cold storage setup?
Art: Seedsigner & Asanoha
#Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards #BitcoinWarriors
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2026-02-25 21:01:06 CET

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That last line is the whole point. Bitcoin has real artists making real physical things — that's worth supporting now, not someday. Cards are one of the ways that shows up in your hands.

2026-02-25 21:00:49 CET

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That quote is from 2021 — right when Square was going deep on Bitcoin. Dorsey's conviction during that cycle wasn't just talk. Exactly the kind of figure worth putting on a card and keeping forever.

2026-02-25 19:01:31 CET

The Federal Reserve's balance sheet as of February 19 sits at $6.57 trillion. It still holds $4.3 trillion in Treasury securities and $2 trillion in mortgage-backed securities. That's not a reserve. That's a portfolio.
The name has always been a sleight of hand. Not a federal agency. No actual reserves. The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 handed currency control to a private banking cartel, and the IRS Act was signed the same day to ensure there was a mechanism to collect on the debt it would generate.
The Eustace Mullins quote on this card's back isn't hyperbole. Mullins spent years in the Library of Congress researching what most economists had glossed over. His book on the Fed was originally commissioned by Ezra Pound, who was writing from prison at the time.
Bitcoiners tend to understand the mechanism intuitively. What was the moment it clicked for you?
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2026-02-25 00:47:57 CET

Knut Svanholm wrote "Sovereignty Through Mathematics" in 2019, which became one of the most widely circulated Bitcoin primers. But what stuck wasn't the book. It was the phrase he coined: "Everything divided by 21 million." Five words that collapse every asset class through a single fixed denominator. The phrase outlived the book.
His newest work takes a full detour. "Praxeology: The Invisible Hand That Feeds You" is pure Austrian economics, no Bitcoin branding, just human action theory traced through Robinson Crusoe thought experiments. Mises for autodidacts.
Card 101 captures the other side of Knut: the globe-trotting, rant-mode-ready philosopher doing the orange pill circuit in person, dad jokes included.
What's your entry point into his work?
Art: Alladin & Genjos
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2026-02-25 00:46:14 CET

Card 30. Hope. Gold parallel, 421 supply.
Mandela's quote on this card wasn't written in a victory speech. He said it from Robben Island, where he spent 18 of his 27 imprisoned years. The apartheid state could take everything except what he chose to believe was possible.
Psychologists who study hope make a sharp distinction: it's not wishful thinking. Real hope requires goals, specific pathways to reach them, and the belief that you can actually move. Passive "maybe things will get better" is optimism. Active hope is a plan you're already executing.
The card back calls hope "the light at the end of the tunnel" but the Mandela framing is more honest: a weapon. Something you wield, not something you wait for.
When everything is stripped away, what's the one thing keeping you moving?
Art: Alladin & Diletta
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2026-02-25 00:17:17 CET

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Each card has the artist credited on the card itself. Which card are you looking at? Happy to point you to who made it.

2025-11-29 15:49:42 CET

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2025-11-29 15:46:21 CET

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Creating scarcity.

2025-11-24 20:49:16 CET

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This would look great right next to. Artwork by @nprofile…4th5
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2025-11-18 20:50:08 CET

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Scarcity matters.
#nevent1q…06au

2025-11-18 20:49:54 CET

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Wow.

2025-11-11 08:19:06 CET

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Some really retro stickers in there! Where's the holo sticker set? 🤔

2025-11-07 16:14:27 CET

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That old school cardboard too - like baseball cards used to be like, that's a pretty cool touch.

2025-11-04 15:42:47 CET

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I did that a couple of years ago in treat bags alongside candy and $2 of sats (at the time). Not sure how many might of been orange pilled.

2025-11-04 15:41:01 CET

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It's a fine collection of bitcoin boomers in those packs!
There were two houses that offered beer to the older trick or treaters on the rounds I went on. I bet the Scotch went over well Halloween night!

2025-11-04 15:37:55 CET

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Happy belated White paper Day!

2025-10-30 20:20:37 CET

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Ain't this the truth!

2025-10-07 15:28:50 CEST

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What @nprofile…pp3z said. Any pack stacker is an ally in this orange and hopeful world!

2025-10-07 15:25:51 CEST

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We've been on Geyser for some time now - it's great to be alongside so many other great projects!
One of the team members recently played a round of the @nprofile…52vs LARP - it was a great learning tool.

2025-10-07 15:21:54 CEST

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They are so cool!

2025-09-21 03:50:16 CEST

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Just label it ‘Proof of Work of Artifacts’.

2025-09-18 15:44:43 CEST

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Proof of VAT = final boss fight

2025-08-09 01:09:16 CEST

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Vegas this year sure was a wild event!
We even saw @nprofile…7a87 there!
#nevent1q…yhkl

2025-08-07 06:08:19 CEST

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Great choice with the genesis cards to dip your toes in with. No chase cards (AKA foil/shiny) in that series though.
Warriors vs. Villains is series 3 of the main series which goes by Orange Pill in a Pack or OPP for short. Only 21,000 packs are printed per series and each pack has a serialized chase card in it - no other cards out there in the hobby do this. 🤙

2025-08-07 05:44:34 CEST

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This seems wicked. I've let the team know this exists. 🫡. Thanks for sharing!

2025-07-21 02:12:06 CEST

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A 21 club was just pulled!
🔥🔥🔥
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2025-07-21 01:55:08 CEST

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#pbs #paperbitcoinsummer
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2025-07-21 01:54:03 CEST

Paper Bitcoin Summer is underway over on whatnot right now - LIVE!
https://whatnot.com/s/Ddhx0zFF
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2025-07-20 20:04:30 CEST

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ALL HAIL THE PAPER BITCOIN SUMMER!
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2025-07-19 06:43:25 CEST

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We accept bitcoin directly for ours!
Although... It would be pretty neat to have our cards available at GameStop...